Beard: Using geothermal baseload merely to mine battery lithium is a distraction
Jamie Beard · Could geothermal become a major zero-emissions player? · Sep 9, 2022 · at 36:21
Project Innerspace founder Jamie Beard and host Laura Pierpoint discuss direct lithium extraction (DLE) and other co-benefits being paired with geothermal energy projects.
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“And so, when I see geothermal in the media as a lithium play, really, I mean, if you look at it, if you back up and look at that, what you're thinking is, oh, ok, good, we'll use this clean, awesome, ubiquitous, baseload energy source to mine lithium to make batteries so we can you know, build more solar and wind. What are we doing? Why are we doing that? I mean, just use geothermal. You know, so, so again, like, it's, it seems really inefficient”
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